Happy Thanksgiving!

We have so much to be thankful for this year!  For starters, I'm thankful for our general good health and the budding friendship between these two.

Owen is thankful for Halloween candy, the gift that keeps on giving.

Hadley is thankful for shoes.  Every morning when Daddy is getting ready to go to work, she hurries to the mud room to get her own shoes.  I think she wants to go with him. Guess she's thankful for Daddy too! :)

Just had to add this picture of Owen (aka Cool Dude) telling me about his "hypopsis" from the other day. (That's hypothesis, a word he has picked up from his favorite show, "Dinosaur Train.") This one was about why a truck had a camper-top on its bed.

Family Football

We have enjoyed a bit of an Indian summer here in mid-November.  I'm talking it got up to nearly 60 degrees for several days in a row!  We got out in the sunshine for a little walk to the nearby school playground, but the boys spotted a football someone had left behind.  A little game of family football, anyone?

Oh, and then this happened today. :(

Last of Fall

I think we are almost there - to winter.  We've already had a few snow flurries and woken up to everything dusted white a couple of mornings.  The wind has been blowing the last of the leaves off the trees, so let's look back to the last moments of fall, shall we? (Funny aside: I said "shall we?" to Owen the other day, and he said, "who's Shalwee?")

We enjoyed one sunny evening in our front yard. Hadley was ushering in the change of the seasons as our "fall fairy" by pulling leaves off of the burning bush.  It made her very happy.

Earlier that day, we ventured to a local corn maze where Owen led us through both the longer and shorter mazes.  Hadley sat this one out and snoozed most of the way.

The best part were the inflatables they had.  Owen ran, bounced, climbed, and slid like a maniac for about half an hour until it was time to go home for lunch and a nap!

We still enjoy family walks, but Owen does walking now instead of biking. The older neighborhoods in town just have to rake their yards into the street, and the city comes by periodically to vacuum up the leaves.  This makes for some epic leaf piles to crunch through!

It seems their tolerance for each other is growing.  Hallelujah!  Owen is learning how to have his own time/place for things, and Hadley is able to do more with him.  He still loves to get her to chase him, and this morning I caught him playing "fetch" with her!  Ha!

Owen has known his letters for a while, so I got him a wipe-off book where he could practice writing.  He seems to enjoy it and does an okay job when he can trace.  Top picture is tracing little letters next to the big ones.  Bottom picture is free-hand filling in the blanks.  Can you believe we are nearly ready for reading/writing?